Monthly Archives: April 2010

In this suit for specific performance filed by an LLC requesting that defendants convey their partnership interests in the Lee School Lofts Partnership to Lee School at the price purportedly dictated by the Limited Partnership Agreement, a Richmond U.S. District ...

A sole testamentary beneficiary, in her individual capacity, may not maintain a legal malpractice action against the attorney for the estate for the attorney’s allegedly negligent services to the estate, says the Supreme Court of Virginia; the high court also ...

Richmond lawyer John A. Gibney, nominated by President Obama for a seat on the federal bench, has a date with the Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow. According to the committee’s website, Gibney comes up April 28 at 2:30 p.m. A webcast ...

Two George Mason University law school professors have the audacity to suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court justices have become a bunch of spotlight-chasing celebrities. This contention, by Professors Craig Lerner and Nelson Lund, is no mere cocktail chatter or ...

Friends of the Portsmouth Juvenile Court, Inc., a court support organization, will recognize some of its valued leaders and supporters on Saturday. An awards ceremony at the Chesapeake Conference Center will honor former board president Horace Savage and other Friends ...

A Richmond U.S. District Court says a statute that prohibits weapon possession by a man convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence is not an unconstitutional infringement on his Second Amendment rights, although an unpublished appellate opinion lends some support to the ...

Two more bar groups have announced their endorsements for two federal court vacancies. The Virginia Trial Lawyers Association found U.S. Magistrate Judge M. Hannah Lauck highly qualified for a U.S. District Court seat in Norfolk. The VTLA found Linda S. ...

Just what does it take for a plaintiff to get an attorney fees award in an ERISA action? That was the question Monday as the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case out of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

A defendant did not have consent to enter a burglary victim’s home, in view of evidence defendant was admitted to the home after the victim’s teenage grandson, who lived in the home, entered through a bathroom window because he said ...

Although an inmate contended he only touched a correctional officer in order to retrieve his personal property, the officer testified the inmate grabbed her wrist and then shoved her left shoulder with his right side, and the Court of Appeals ...